“Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to talk to me. They thought I would be right for the part of The Terminator”: WASP frontman Blackie Lawless’ wild tales of Lemmy, Gene Simmons and The Village People

WASP’s Blackie Lawless posing for a photograph in 1986.

When WASP formed in 1982, they were the bastard children of Kiss and Alice Cooper, with frontman Blackie Lawless’s meat-chucking, codpiece-wearing antics and songs such as their infamous debut single Animal (Fuck Like A Beast) attracting the ire of the PMRC. They’ve evolved plenty since then, not least Blackie himself, who became a born again Christian in the 2000s. When Classic Rock spoke to him in 2010, he plenty of rock’n’roll stories to tell, from nearly getting into a brawl with Lemmy to almost becoming the Terminator.